A.C.P. : Gender Ideology Harms Children

Rates of Suicide 20x Higher
– American College of Pediatricians –

Rates of suicide are nearly twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones…

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Gender Ideology Harms Children

Updated September 2017

The American College of Pediatricians urges healthcare professionals, educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.

1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of male and female, respectively – not genetic markers of a disorder. The norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and flourishing of our species. This principle is self-evident. The exceedingly rare disorders of sex development (DSDs), including but not limited to testicular feminization and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, are all medically identifiable deviations from the sexual binary norm, and are rightly recognized as disorders of human design. Individuals with DSDs (also referred to as “intersex”) do not constitute a third sex.1

2. No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one. No one is born with an awareness of themselves as male or female; this awareness develops over time and, like all developmental processes, may be derailed by a child’s subjective perceptions, relationships, and adverse experiences from infancy forward. People who identify as “feeling like the opposite sex” or “somewhere in between” do not comprise a third sex. They remain biological men or biological women.2,3,4

3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5).5 The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.2,4,5

4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous. Reversible or not, puberty- blocking hormones induce a state of disease – the absence of puberty – and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously biologically healthy child.6

5. According to the DSM-5, as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.5

6. Pre-pubertal children diagnosed with gender dysphoria may be given puberty blockers as young as eleven, and will require cross-sex hormones in later adolescence to continue impersonating the opposite sex. These children will never be able to conceive any genetically related children even via artificial reproductive technology. In addition, cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to cardiac disease, high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.7,8,9,10,11

7. Rates of suicide are nearly twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ – affirming countries.12 What compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to this fate knowing that after puberty as many as 88% of girls and 98% of boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and physical health?

8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse. Endorsing gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to “gender clinics” where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn, virtually ensures they will “choose” a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.

Michelle A. Cretella, M.D.
President of the American College of Pediatricians

Quentin Van Meter, M.D.
Vice President of the American College of Pediatricians
Pediatric Endocrinologist

Paul McHugh, M.D.
University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Article Reference

(acpeds.org)—Regarding Point 3: “Where does the APA or DSM-5 indicate that Gender Dysphoria is a mental disorder?”

The APA (American Psychiatric Association) is the author of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition(DSM-5). The APA states that those distressed and impaired by their GD meet the definition of a disorder. The College is unaware of any medical literature that documents a gender dysphoric child seeking puberty blocking hormones who is not significantly distressed by the thought of passing through the normal and healthful process of puberty.
From the DSM-5 fact sheet:

“The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.”“This condition causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”

Regarding Point 5: “Where does the DSM-5 list rates of resolution for Gender Dysphoria?”

On page 455 of the DSM-5 under “Gender Dysphoria without a disorder of sex development” it states: “Rates of persistence of gender dysphoria from childhood into adolescence or adulthood vary. In natal males, persistence has ranged from 2.2% to 30%. In natal females, persistence has ranged from 12% to 50%.” Simple math allows one to calculate that for natal boys: resolution occurs in as many as 100% – 2.2% = 97.8% (approx. 98% of gender-confused boys). Similarly, for natal girls: resolution occurs in as many as 100% – 12% = 88% gender-confused girls.

The bottom line is this: Our opponents advocate a new scientifically baseless standard of care for children with a psychological condition (GD) that would otherwise resolve after puberty for the vast majority of patients concerned. Specifically, they advise: affirmation of children’s thoughts which are contrary to physical reality; the chemical castration of these children prior to puberty with GnRH agonists (puberty blockers which cause infertility, stunted growth, low bone density, and an unknown impact upon their brain development), and, finally, the permanent sterilization of these children prior to age 18 via cross-sex hormones. There is an obvious self-fulfilling nature to encouraging young GD children to impersonate the opposite sex and then institute pubertal suppression. If a boy who questions whether or not he is a boy (who is meant to grow into a man) is treated as a girl, then has his natural pubertal progression to manhood suppressed, have we not set in motion an inevitable outcome? All of his same sex peers develop into young men, his opposite sex friends develop into young women, but he remains a pre-pubertal boy. He will be left psychosocially isolated and alone. He will be left with the psychological impression that something is wrong. He will be less able to identify with his same sex peers and being male, and thus be more likely to self identify as “non-male” or female. Moreover, neuroscience reveals that the pre-frontal cortex of the brain which is responsible for judgment and risk assessment is not mature until the mid-twenties. Never has it been more scientifically clear that children and adolescents are incapable of making informed decisions regarding permanent, irreversible and life-altering medical interventions. For this reason, the College maintains it is abusive to promote this ideology, first and foremost for the well-being of the gender dysphoric children themselves, and secondly, for all of their non-gender-discordant peers, many of whom will subsequently question their own gender identity, and face violations of their right to bodily privacy and safety.

For more information, please visit this page on the College website concerning sexuality and gender issues.

1. Consortium on the Management of Disorders of Sex Development, “Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Disorders of Sex Development in Childhood.” Intersex Society of North America, March 25, 2006. Accessed 3/20/16 from http://www.dsdguidelines.org/files/clinical.pdf.

Your rights? A footnote for now - but slowly being trampled underfoot.

And I should know.

Note the footnote - the warning that the Seattle Police will come after churches, groups anything that is "collective" against their beliefs.

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Governor Jay Inslee Beating Up Those Who Oppose His Belief About Sex

Governor Jay Inslee corrupts the courts by walking Judge Mary Yu up the State of Washington courthouse steps.

Such lawless abuse of the legal system to bully one's beliefs is the hallmark of corruption. Think putting blacks in jail in the deep down south of the United States and you will understand clearly what Governor Jay Inslee has done to the justice system.

Later Governor Jay Inslee would declare an embargo, an act of war, against the State of Indinia for their beliefs.

: a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government

: gay agenda, environmental wacko, family destruction

: very harsh control or authority

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King County Court Corruption and Hate Crime Endorsement

www.hardtruth.us

Hate Crime Endorsement

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Note the right way to holiness.

Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. (Jeremiah 31:21)

Note those who are on the right road of holiness.

Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. (Philippians 3:17)

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Since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you- ~God, (Proverbs 1:25-26)

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I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: (Proverbs 24:32)

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The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails-given by one Shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. (Ecclesiastes 12:11-12)

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If you want to keep reading the reference article is on enumclaw.com - opinion unto righteousness.

Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning.

(Proverbs 9:9)

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Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord , since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm. (Proverbs 1:29-33)

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To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it. (Jeremiah 6:10)

n 1998, Dr. Phillip Esplin, a forensic psychologist for the National Institutes of Health's Child Witness Project said that "Wenatchee may be the worst example ever of mental health services being abused by a state.

Enumclaw Washington is well known for it's gossipy underbelly causing many individuals to pack up their lives and leave.

For decades the Enumclaw City Counsel has had complaints about the structure, selfish manipulation of government at the cost of other's safety.

Enumclaw Washington is one of those towns where everyone has lived and left.

It was the hate crime instigated, re-enforced and manipulated that finally drove Timothy Williams from town.

On the contrary, after we had previously suffered and been outrageously treated in Philippi, as you know, we were emboldened by our God to speak the gospel of God to you in spite of great opposition. (1 Thessalonians 2:2)

(see hardtruth.us for specifics)

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"What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. (John 18:38)

Pilate has Truth at his right hand, admits there is no basis for any charge against the Truth - but kills the Truth anyway.

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19)

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The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. (John 12:25)

So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me." (John 8:28)

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Shamefully Treated By Authorities

On the contrary, after we had previously suffered and been outrageously treated in Enumclaw... (1 Thessalonians 2:2)

Sound Doctrine Church is no longer.

The preacher was Timothy Williams who formally was allowed to live in Enumclaw Washington until authorities ran him out.

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I can’t believe …still being told that being gay is wrong. so says Jeremy Jordan and begins to incite hatred towards those who oppose his idea of sex.Really, it is kinda surprising that Jeremy Jordon is still in favor of black individuals being slaves today. Clearly, according to Mr. Jordon since the Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex individuals may marry, and since the Supreme Court ruled that a black man was property, such is truth. Mr. Jordon confuses the opinion of judges with truth – and seldom do the two meet.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. (Ephesians 4:18)

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Prosecutor David Seaver told the Court to keep secret the activities of Enumclaw Detective Grant McCall.

Naturally the court was eager to keep things in the darkness.

Or, the lawless excuse that the right to confront an accuser could not happen, according to Judge Lori K. Smith's order, because "no adult could be found."

Judge Lori K. Smith not only helped King County Prosecutors, but such Prosecutors knew they could ignore, rebel and reject her court orders because Prosecutor Dan Satterberg has flourished lawlessness in the name of The Law.

http://hardtruth.us/seaver-police-secrets/

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Prosecutor Mark Larson, of King County Washington produced not 1-single-piece of evidence a crime had been committed, yet, had the ridiculous gall to tell a jury just to say "So what" to evidence - Honorable Judge Lori K. Smith sitting by. The video proof can be found at www.hardtruth.us

Cultural Christianity is a form of religion that simply believes Jesus died to maintain one's county, lifestyle and culture.

Cross-carrying Christians hate their own will, denying self while picking up a cross in order to follow Jesus.

They are the only honest Christians.

The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. (John 12:25)

(enumclaw.com)

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The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace. (2 Kings 7:11)

Nothing new about spreading news.

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Have complaint, Governor says file it with the WSBA. Have a court complaint the Supreme Court says file it with the WSBA ...get it?

Washington State Bar Association in complete corruption of conflict of interest has designed bureaucracy to block any attempts at reform. The Washington State Supreme Court, the Governor's Office, Prosecutors and Judges all have tie-ins and systems in place to protect their power base. This is why Governor Jay Inslee will tell you to file complaints with Washington State Bar Association and the Washington Supreme Courts has "instructed" the WSBA to police the Washington State Courts. This is exactly way the corruption continues to increase.

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A sign of a sinful nation provoking God to judgment.

The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired man a maniac. (Hosea 9:7)

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"It takes only passing familiarity with recent news..." King County Prosecutor David Seaver, Washington State before Appeals Judges.

Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. (Ecclesiastes 12:13)

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An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. (Proverbs 24:26)

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Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. (2 Peter 1:4)

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"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. (Matthew 13:44-46)

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In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:33)

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Seattle police using guns to enforce their sexual peccadillos

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Satan Worship

Worship in the form of activation upon kindergartners.

Washington State Supreme Court approved.

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Do not for a second think that being saved is the nonsense you hear floating to the top of the religious cesspool.

There are "many other words" of warning that you must hear first.

"With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation." (Acts 2:40)

Those who were standing near Paul said, "You dare to insult God's high priest?" Paul replied, "Brothers, I did not realize that he was the high priest; for it is written: 'Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.' " (Acts 23:4-5)

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"Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. "Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself? Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like his? Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty. Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every proud man and bring him low, look at every proud man and humble him, crush the wicked where they stand. (Job 40:7-12)